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<blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9249057" data-attributes="member: 7026594">I like your thinking.&nbsp; More broadly re: a one shot with pre-gens, here are a few other IMO best practices to speed matters:1. Have players roll off for choice order using a d20 or something rather than losing time to the &quot;you go ahead&quot;, &quot;no, please, you first&quot; politeness. 2. Have race/class and optionally name and character portrait in BIG PRINT (readable across the table) at the top of the sheets.&nbsp; Make it so everyone can see at a glance with the sheets lying on the table what the options are, without having to individually pick up and read them.3. Optionally, don't even give the players the sheets.&nbsp; JUST a card with that info above. It saves time if they can just pick based on the most high level details and review the actual sheet once they have the character.&nbsp; IME there can be a tendency for one or two players to really want to look carefully at all the options, and this can cost a lot of time for little to no benefit.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mannahnin, post: 9249057, member: 7026594"] I like your thinking. More broadly re: a one shot with pre-gens, here are a few other IMO best practices to speed matters: [B]1. [/B]Have players roll off for choice order using a d20 or something rather than losing time to the "you go ahead", "no, please, you first" politeness. [B]2.[/B] Have race/class and optionally name and character portrait in BIG PRINT (readable across the table) at the top of the sheets. Make it so everyone can see at a glance with the sheets lying on the table what the options are, without having to individually pick up and read them. [B]3.[/B] Optionally, don't even give the players the sheets. JUST a card with that info above. It saves time if they can just pick based on the most high level details and review the actual sheet once they have the character. IME there can be a tendency for one or two players to really want to look carefully at all the options, and this can cost a lot of time for little to no benefit. [/QUOTE]

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